Outline of business

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to business:

Business – organization of one or more individuals, engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers, and the activity of such organizations, also known as "doing business".

By activity

 * See: Industry classification

By legal structure
Types of business entity
 * Sole proprietorship
 * Partnership
 * Corporation

Business activities

 * Accounting
 * Commerce
 * Finance
 * Industrial and labour relations
 * Management (outline)
 * Manufacturing
 * Marketing
 * Research and development
 * Supply Chain

Concepts

 * Advertising
 * Banking
 * Barter
 * Big business
 * Business acumen
 * Business broker
 * Business ethics
 * Business hours
 * Business intelligence
 * Business mediator
 * Business model design
 * Business plan
 * Business process modeling
 * Business reference model
 * Business rule
 * Business schools
 * Business trip
 * Capitalism
 * Change management analyst
 * Commercial law
 * Company
 * Competition
 * Competitive advantage
 * Cooperative
 * Core competency
 * Corporate law
 * Corporation
 * Cost overrun
 * Debenture
 * Ebusiness
 * Economic democracy
 * Economics
 * Electronic business
 * Electronic commerce
 * Entrepreneurship
 * Equity investment
 * Financial economics
 * Franchising
 * Government ownership
 * Growth platforms
 * Human Resources
 * Index of accounting articles
 * Industry
 * Insurance
 * Intellectual property
 * Interim Management
 * International trade
 * Investment
 * Investment management
 * Job creation program
 * Labour economics
 * Limited liability
 * List of billionaires
 * List of business films
 * List of business theorists
 * Lists of companies
 * List of economists
 * List of international trade topics
 * List of oldest companies
 * List of production topics
 * List of real estate topics
 * List of Theory of Constraints topics
 * Management
 * Management information systems
 * Management philosophy
 * Manufacturing
 * Market forms
 * Marketing plan
 * Mass media
 * Middle management
 * Money
 * Organizational studies
 * Outline of business management
 * Outline of commercial law
 * Outline of economics
 * Outline of finance
 * Outline of marketing
 * Outline of production
 * Outline of project management
 * Partnership
 * Process management
 * Profit (disambiguation)
 * Project management
 * Real Estate
 * Renewable Energy
 * Revenue shortfall
 * Senior management
 * Small business
 * Social responsibility
 * Social security
 * Strategic management
 * Strategic planning
 * Strategy dynamics
 * Tax
 * The Design of Business
 * Theory of Constraints
 * Trade name
 * Value migration

Business scholars

 * Peter Drucker
 * Tom Peters

Leaders in business

 * Al-Waleed bin Talal
 * Warren Buffett
 * Elon Musk
 * Andrew Carnegie
 * Walt Disney
 * Thomas Edison
 * Michael Eisner
 * Henry Ford
 * Bill Gates
 * J. Paul Getty
 * Howard Hughes
 * Steve Jobs
 * Ray Kroc
 * Li Ka-shing
 * Lakshmi Mittal
 * J. P. Morgan
 * Rupert Murdoch
 * Aristotle Onassis
 * Amancio Ortega
 * John D. Rockefeller
 * J. R. Simplot
 * Carlos Slim
 * Ratan Tata
 * Ted Turner
 * Sam Walton
 * Thomas J. Watson